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Bossware is booming, but evidence shows it doesn't boost productivity — only increasing stress, disengagement, and injuries. Its widespread use reveals an imbalance of power and a focus on control rather than trust or performance.
Discover more at https://smarterarticles.co.uk/the-evidence-employers-ignore-bossware-does-not-improve-productivity?pk_campaign=rss-feed
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The Evidence Employers Ignore: Bossware Does Not Improve Productivity

In May 2024, Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees in its wealth and investment management division. Their offence was not frau...

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Paul Welty Apr 30

Every project management tool descends from Frederick Taylor's factory floor — the guy who said the ideal worker should "more nearly resemble in his mental make-up the ox than any other type."

The interface got prettier. The assumption didn't change.

If you're moving cards across columns and updating status fields, that's not work.

https://www.paulwelty.com/your-project-management-tool-was-made-for-a-non-human-factory/

#ProjectManagement #KnowledgeWork #AIandWork #FutureOfWork #Leadership

Your project management tool was made for a non-human (AI) factory, not for you

Every project or task management tool on the market descends from Frederick Taylor's factory floor. The assumptions were wrong then. They're catastrophic in the Age of AI.

Paul Welty, PhD

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Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦Apr 13

Stanford/ADP data: 25 million workers. A 16% targeted drop in junior employment in AI-exposed fields since late 2022.

Not a general hiring freeze. Surgical. Controlled for COVID correction, remote work, offshoring.

The entry-level knowledge job is structurally disappearing. The senior one? Growing slightly in some sectors.

The asymmetry is the story. #LaborMarket #AIAndWork

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Mar 31

via #Microsoft : Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI

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#OpenToWork #AI #FutureOfWork #CareerAdvice #JobSearch #AIandWork #Microsoft #LinkedIn #OpenToWorkBook #AIFuture #CareerDevelopment #WorkplaceTrends #Automation #HumanCentricAI #TechForGoo…

Paul Welty Mar 30

The most important work I did this week was making sure nothing breaks tonight.

Twenty-four issues closed across five projects. Timeouts, bounds checks, race conditions, silent failure modes. The kind of work that never makes a conference talk.

Building is additive — feedback is immediate. Operating is subtractive — success means nothing happens.

https://www.paulwelty.com/nobody-promotes-you-to-operator/

#OperationalExcellence #SoftwareEngineering #Automation #Leadership #AIandWork

Nobody promotes you to operator

There's a moment in every project where the work stops being about building and starts being about keeping things running. Nobody announces this transition. Nobody gives you new tools for it. And most people keep building long past the point where they should have stopped.

Paul Welty, PhD

Tim Green Mar 29

The future of AI and knowledge work depends on adopting policies that share automation's gains and protect workers’ dignity. Historic lessons from industrial union agreements show coordinated, comprehensive intervention is essential. Will today’s policymakers act accordingly?
Discover more at https://dev.to/rawveg/the-treaty-of-detroit-for-ai-5eaj
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The Treaty of Detroit for AI

The nightmares have evolved. Once, workers feared the factory floor going silent as machines hummed...

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Harald Klinke Feb 24

The Remote Labor Index (RLI) measures how well AI agents can automate real-world remote work projects — the current best automation rate is just 3.75%. The debate on AI and the labor market needs empirical indices like the RLI — real-world performance metrics. #AIandWork #AgenticAI #Automation

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Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work

Harald Klinke Feb 24

Der Remote Labor Index (RLI) misst, wie gut KI-Agenten reale Remote-Arbeitsprojekte automatisieren können – aktuell liegt die beste Automatisierungsrate bei nur 3,75 %.
Die Debatte über KI und Arbeitsmarkt braucht empirische Indizes wie den RLI – nicht nur Modell-Showcases, sondern realweltliche Leistungsmetriken.
https://www.remotelabor.ai/
#AIandWork #AgenticAI #Automation